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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when...
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
influential with children: can the company use its "magic" to get children to switch from sugary, processed foods and become lifelong converts to a more nutritious diet? What is the food industry's responsibility in this...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
ownership and control of 3,694 firms in 22 Western European and East Asian countries during the period from 1996 to 2008, we find that the cost of debt financing is significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
mindfulness, and love. As a practitioner, Zachary’s clients include multinational corporations, government agencies, NGO’s, universities, religious institutions, and nonprofits entities. He has coached top leaders at the World Bank for...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
- Background Note
The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004
By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population....
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Health Clubs;
Fitness;
Gyms;
Chain;
Weight Loss;
Obesity;
Exercise;
Personal Training;
Bally Total Fitness;
24 Hour Fitness;
YMCA;
Gold's Gym;
Curves;
Franchise;
Franchising;
Subscription;
Promotional Sales;
Promotions;
Fixed Costs;
Body;
Accrual Accounting;
Revenue Recognition;
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Trends;
Customers;
Demographics;
Age;
Income;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Nutrition;
Business History;
Employees;
Retention;
Human Capital;
Working Conditions;
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Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Industry Growth;
Industry Structures;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Franchise Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Situation or Environment;
Opportunities;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Welfare;
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Business Strategy;
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Wells, John R., Gabriel Ellsworth, and Benjamin Weinstock. "The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-445, November 2004. (Revised September 2019.)
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones. For example, on the subject of environmental sustainability, the authors observed: "It is odd that business historians have not devoted more attention to sustainability, given that, arguably, the actions of View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
protected economic climate that managed business by issuing a limited number of permits in each industry and dictated production quantities. “When I started in business in the 1960s, many of our companies didn’t have a profit plan;...
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Julia Hanna
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
workers. Moreover, multinational companies pursued faster market growth abroad, often staffing these growth markets with their best and brightest. These trends were the real dark clouds on the horizon, with...
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by Staff
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
to 34 year old males. Hirai was determined to restore that supremacy, in the current generation or the next. He knew that, whether or not he publicly defined SCEI's strategy as a response to Wii, he had to find a way for his company to...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
research. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15319 PublicationsSuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:New York: Crown,...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
But, surprisingly, athletic success impacts applications even among academically stronger students. 2006 Harvard Business Review The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—By now most View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
of the School’s global journey than Professor Krishna Palepu, who arrived on campus in 1983. At the time, “most of the curriculum was based on materials that were developed using US company experiences in the US context,” recalls Palepu,...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
U.S. Army. He flew missions in Albania and Afghanistan before being called to Iraq in February 2003, where his assignment was more earthbound (but no less eventful) as headquarters company commander in charge of a 26-vehicle convoy and...
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comparative perspective, to multinational and domestic companies operating in emerging markets. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of different decision-makers, such as politicians, technocrats,...
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